As gardens change over time sometimes we need to take a step back and re-evaluate
BLOG
Planting plan and planting – Shepton Mallet
A low maintenance planting plan offering year round interest.
Willow tunnel – Southampon
A living willow tunnel where diagonal weaving provides a lot of inbuilt strength
Garden Gurus – Glastonbury FM
What a fun ‘Garden Gurus’ team at Glastonbury FM! Tess came out to interview me on site planting trees in my new cider orchard, it was a very wild and windy day and one friend aptly describing it as ‘blowing a hooley’. Despite the hooley Tess managed to catch most of what I had to say about the subsoiling, the short…
Willow creatures – Yeovil
Yesterday I spent a lovely day in the inspiring art department of Preston School in Yeovil. Working with 30 pupils we made a range of insects and creatures during the course of the day, many dragonflies, jellyfish, a mole, hermit crab, ladybird…
Valentines Workshop – Shepton Mallet
To celebrate Valentines day, I organised a willow heart weaving workshop at The Art Tree in Shepton Mallet where I also exhibit my work. This was the first of a programme of workshops offered at the new gallery. It was a fun and relaxed evening with cake and bubbly and everyone made two woven hearts…
Pruning fruit trees
Shepton Mallet Horticultural Society were treated to me talking about the winter pruning of apple trees! A short presentation about “knowing your buds” and “understanding what is a good strong shape” was followed by an interactive session pruning two apple trees that I took in. Pub staff were entertained by us ‘crazy gardeners’ carrying apple…
Garden design / forest gardening – Bristol
A garden design for a collection useful and herbal plants. The site was more or less a blank canvas on a predominantly clay soil. This has been an interesting project involving the creation of shelter belts, drainage considerations and forest gardening principles.
Winter solstice lanterns – Shepton Mallet
During December I was involved in the organising of a lantern parade, this is the first year of the event in Shepton Mallet and it has been a huge success. We ran workshops in 3 local schools plus withthe scouts and three Saturday workshops in an empty shop in the centre of Shepton. Using willow and…
The first willow tunnel of the season – Wells
This is the season of living willow structures and despite the recent cold spell, the temperature has been rising over the last few days thus allowing all those with garden projects to make a bit of headway. Today I worked with a primary school to create a 3m living willow tunnel, 54 children took part and…